US PREMIERE

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

WORLD PREMIERE

FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT

THROWBACK FROM 

1993

11th Annual Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival

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Mon, Jun 12 @ 7:30 pm
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Director
Mark D’Auria
Year
1993
Run Time
90
min
Country
United States
Language
PROGRAM Time
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CONTENT WARNING:
Perhaps seeking a father figure as a result of childhood abandonment, Michael, who’s about 35, carries on with older men a mix of affairs, one-night stands, and casual sex in public toilets. Joe, from whom he has recently broken, abuses him; his latest flame, a police detective, ignores him. His and his twin Joey’s birthday approaches, and it triggers memories of their childhood and their illnesses at age seven, leaving Michael a bad heart and retarding Joey’s mental development. He buys a birthday present for Joey, but in his melancholy, arrives late after his brother is sleeping. His mother still mourns her husband’s leaving. A crisis and resolution ensue.
This film is presented in with English subtitles.
Director Mark D'Auria stars in this deeply moving and intensely personal saga, of a young man with a penchant for husky fifty-something men. Religious and erotic, D’Auria explores sexual compulsions seldom seen in gay cinema.
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